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The former acting Director General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Musa Mayaki has revealed how he was punished by the Goodluck Jonathan administration for censoring insulting statements made by members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during on-air campaigns.

Mayaki who was subsequently removed from the position and replaced by the incumbent, Sola Omole made the disclosure during an interview with Leadership during the weekend.

“Although
I can’t really understand why these things happened the way they did
during the 2015 polls, because when I was DG there was election in Edo
State. When the PDP came with about N35 million for live coverage of
their campaign activities in the state, I took the money and then when
they started the campaign I just saw on air- direct live- that it was
all insult upon insult,” Mayaki said.

“It
was not even the journalists covering the campaign that called me and
drew my attention; it was our secretary of the board that called me and
said, ‘Mr Mayaki, do you see what is going on on-air?’ So, I called the
man who is on transmission, Mr Balogun, and said, ‘What can we do about
this development?’ He said we can use delayed broadcast and edit (out)
whatever insult before we pass it on to the public.

“And
that is exactly what we did. Anything they said, once it was insulting
we cut it off and, at the end of the day, we pass on only the good
aspects of the message that they wanted to pass. So, we continued doing
that for the three or four hours that they wanted the programme to be
aired.

“I was so happy that the then
minister of information, Labaran Maku, stood by me. He didn’t waver
because he knew what I had done and he was very, very okay with it. But
how many of us have that kind of stamina to withstand that kind of
pressure?

Pressures are always coming
from everywhere, but if you are very professional, you would know that
‘this one, I should not take it’. Like for us, we were not actually
journalists; I just happened to be in NTA and was the most senior
officer and I know that the thing was wrong.

“If
I were there during the 2015 electioneering period, I wouldn’t have
taken it with all their money, and I even heard that there was no money
paid for all the insults.”

“It is not
every position that you just give to politicians because, in the past,
politicians who were board members did a lot of damage to NTA. They just
come in and start looking for money. They are least interested in the
NTA,” he said.

He also urged incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that someone with expansive knowledge of television broadcasting is appointed chairman of the NTA board from now on.

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